FROM PIPE DREAM TO PIPING WATER: THE WIMMERA MALLEE PIPELINE PROJECT

摘要

The Wimmera Mallee Pipeline Project (WMPP) is one of the largest water management projects in Australia. The project will underpin a sustainable future for the Wimmera and southern Mallee regions of Western Victoria through the provision of a new water supply system that meets the needs of the region for the next 100 years. The proposed pipeline system will reticulate water to about 9,000 rural property service points and 36 towns and will replace an existing and highly inefficient open channel system. The current channel system provides domestic, stock and bulk urban water to an area covering approximately 10 per cent of Victoria, but this supply arrangement is not sustainable. At present, 85 per cent of the water released to the channel system is lost through seepage and evaporation.